[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.

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The section on the use of pregenerated code was amended to indicate the
preference for having tools necessary to regenerate such code be free
software and packaged in Fedora.
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_pregenerated_code
* https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1514

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The outdated prohibition on socket activated services was removed from
the Systemd packaging guidelines.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Socket_activation
* https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/618

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The Perl guidelines were modified to include information about necessary
build dependencies now that Perl itself is being removed from the
default buildroot.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl#Build_Dependencies
* https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/620

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The section on use of /run has been simplified.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.2Frun
* https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/622
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